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  • 2021
  • Magnet Releasing
  • 2 h 9 m
  • 2021
  • Magnet Releasing
  • 2 h 9 m

Summary It’s midsummer and Sweden wakes up to a state of emergency. TV, internet, and telephone networks are down, and before anyone realizes what’s behind the collapse, a series of unexplained attacks take place around the country. Alex, a successful pianist whose controlled existence is upturned when his mother dies in a suspected terror attac...

Directed By: Victor Danell

Written By: Christoffer Nordenrot, Victor Danell

  • 2021
  • Magnet Releasing
  • 2 h 9 m
  • 2021
  • Magnet Releasing
  • 2 h 9 m

The Unthinkable

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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Summary It’s midsummer and Sweden wakes up to a state of emergency. TV, internet, and telephone networks are down, and before anyone realizes what’s behind the collapse, a series of unexplained attacks take place around the country. Alex, a successful pianist whose controlled existence is upturned when his mother dies in a suspected terror attac...

Directed By: Victor Danell

Written By: Christoffer Nordenrot, Victor Danell

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Generally Favorable Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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75
May 11, 2021
It's impressively staged, especially considering the low budget, and contains a number of action beats that put their high-priced Hollywood competition to shame.
By Peter Sobczynski FULL REVIEW
75
May 11, 2021
A riveting disaster movie that’s actually heartbreaking, and doesn’t so much delight in world-ending events as it recognizes that surviving them never ensures a happy ending. Getting through the ordeal is only half the battle.
By Eric Kohn FULL REVIEW
70
May 11, 2021
It packs everything but the kitchen sink (though it does bring the entire Swedish government) into a two-hour-plus survival story that mostly keeps you on the edge of your seat, especially once the bravura action scenes kick in and you start wondering how the heck the filmmakers pulled them off.
By Jordan Mintzer FULL REVIEW
70
May 6, 2021
A lot of big action pictures add “a little heart” between the thrills, but The Unthinkable reverses the ratio, centering emotions. Some genre fans may be impatient with this approach at first, but by the end, it really works.
By Noel Murray FULL REVIEW
63
May 11, 2021
It’s the depictions of social breakdown, Swedish tempers exploding, soldiers questioning their priorities in an absence of orders and the action beats — Björn’s crackpot defense of the power station — that drive the narrative, punching through one Big Effect, crash or firefight right into the next.
By Roger Moore FULL REVIEW
50
May 11, 2021
Despite some strikingly accomplished elements, the awkward whole never quite gels, sewn-together parts from “Red Dawn,” “Independence Day,” et al., failing to cohere amid major logic gaps, not to mention lead characters more off-putting than interesting.
By Dennis Harvey FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Crazy Pictures
Release Date May 7, 2021
Duration 2 h 9 m
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Tagline Vi trodde aldrig det skulle hända oss
Website http://www.magnetreleasing.com/theunthinkable/
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Awards

Guldbagge Awards
• 1 Win & 5 Nominations
Gérardmer Film Festival
• 3 Wins & 3 Nominations
Screamfest
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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